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OCZ Vertex Owners Thread - Test Results **Updated 15 Mar 2009**
A few ATTO benchmarks from different drives I have here:-
First a 32GB IDE MTRON SSD in my samsung laptop running windows 7 beta:-
Second a 300GB WD Velociraptor in my main machine running XP SP3:-
Lastly, new 60GB OCZ Vertex in my main machine running XP SP3:-
Main machine is a Asus P5e3 X38 motherboard, with Q6600.
At the moment not too happy about the performance of the vertex drive, I am hoping that there are some machine settings that I can tweak to improve both the read and write performance.
Update 7th March 2009
Right, I have a small update for everyone:-
People were saying it may be a controller issue i.e. ICH9R, but there is pretty much no difference between this and AMD SB750, the benchmark results were almost identicle.
Aligning the partition seems to make little or no difference in either scenarios.
The biggest benefit came from enabling write cache on Windows XP. The below ATTO result is after I have been through all the various SSD tweaks, i.e. disabling the pagefile, aligning the partition, enabling write cache, disabling indexing services etc:-
The write speeds now seem to be at a more acceptable level and I am now feeling a little happier about purchasing one of these drives. I dont know why OCZ dont put all of these steps in a printout inside the vertex box. It would save everyone a lot of faffing about.
Update 15th March 2009
Just updated with the new firmware which was a pain in the a$$. Note to anyone else, if you have the nvidia SATA drivers installed the OCZ flashing tool will not work. Write speed seems quicker, although read speeds havent changed much.
Update 23rd March 2009
Just updated with the new firmware version 1275. Not really too much of a speed difference. Upgrade process was painless now I know to uninstall the nvidia SATA drivers and re-install the standard ones for the flash tool to work.
A few ATTO benchmarks from different drives I have here:-
First a 32GB IDE MTRON SSD in my samsung laptop running windows 7 beta:-
Second a 300GB WD Velociraptor in my main machine running XP SP3:-
Lastly, new 60GB OCZ Vertex in my main machine running XP SP3:-
Main machine is a Asus P5e3 X38 motherboard, with Q6600.
At the moment not too happy about the performance of the vertex drive, I am hoping that there are some machine settings that I can tweak to improve both the read and write performance.
Update 7th March 2009
Right, I have a small update for everyone:-
People were saying it may be a controller issue i.e. ICH9R, but there is pretty much no difference between this and AMD SB750, the benchmark results were almost identicle.
Aligning the partition seems to make little or no difference in either scenarios.
The biggest benefit came from enabling write cache on Windows XP. The below ATTO result is after I have been through all the various SSD tweaks, i.e. disabling the pagefile, aligning the partition, enabling write cache, disabling indexing services etc:-
The write speeds now seem to be at a more acceptable level and I am now feeling a little happier about purchasing one of these drives. I dont know why OCZ dont put all of these steps in a printout inside the vertex box. It would save everyone a lot of faffing about.
Update 15th March 2009
Just updated with the new firmware which was a pain in the a$$. Note to anyone else, if you have the nvidia SATA drivers installed the OCZ flashing tool will not work. Write speed seems quicker, although read speeds havent changed much.
Update 23rd March 2009
Just updated with the new firmware version 1275. Not really too much of a speed difference. Upgrade process was painless now I know to uninstall the nvidia SATA drivers and re-install the standard ones for the flash tool to work.
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